"When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry."

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Source : "Q&A: Senator Ron Wyden on NSA Surveillance and Government Transparency". www.rollingstone.com. August 15, 2013.

Ron Wyden

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“I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I'm not ashamed of my spiritual beliefs, but I in no way incorporate them into this band.”
“That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.”
“Development of the space station is as inevitable as the rising of the sun; man has already poked his nose into space and he is not likely to pull it back . . . . There can be no thought of finishing, for aiming at the stars-both literally and figuratively-is the work of generations, and no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.”
“I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.”
“Rhetoric is rooted in an essential function of language itself, a function that is wholly realistic and continually born anew: the use of language as a symbolic means of inducing cooperation in beings that by nature respond to symbols.”

Source : Kenneth Burke (1969). “A Rhetoric of Motives”, p.43, Univ of California Press
“It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language”
“My mom had to beg the guys to let me play. I couldn't even play the drums right - Brian had to show me.”

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